. >> barack obama will be the 44th president of the united states. >> barack obama, 47 years old, will become the president of the united states. >> that night when he came out, the look on his face to me looked like someone who finally understood the weight of the job that he had just won. >> narrator: but that night, must have believed the bipartisan change he had h promised was now within sight. >> americans sent a messe to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. we are, and always will be, the united states of america. >> you have, in obama's case, gone within four years from being an illinois state oulitician to the most famous person on earth, and you havepe confidence in both your judgment about what's the right way to go d your ability to make it that way. >>merica can change. our union can be perfected. and what we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. >> if he was too confident abouc being able to bring people together, one can understand, given the way he'd spent